[Catalog-sig] " A simple printer of nested lists"

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Any chance we could put a block in place on packages that mention this
> phrase?
> 
> Has anyone had any joy tracking down the author of the book that
> resulted in this avalanche of junk? At the very least they could publish
> an errata explaining their horrific mistake...

I'm obviously missing some context here, but there are indeed
quite a few copies of seemingly the same module up PyPI:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=search&term=simple+printer+of+nested+lists

Is it possible that the book used the module to explain creating
distutils packages and uploading them to PyPI ?

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